Healthy food and drink choices are especially important for children’s growing bodies and minds

They provide us with energy and nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and proteins so our bodies can function and thrive.
This means eating a wide variety of foods  This collection is to help children become familiar with foods from near and far and become more adventurous in their eating habits while having lots of fun.

My original site: http://www.singinggamesforchildren.com/ has a library of more than 3000 songs, games and rhymes many that fit this category.
Here in this ‘River of song’ collection they will be gathered together alphabetically in named groups.

Some compilations can already be found in my YouTube playlists

YouTube playlists:
Food, plant and eating songs – YouTube
Songs about farming and farm animals – YouTube
winter songs and poems – YouTube
Spring songs – YouTube
Easter songs – YouTube
Summer songs – YouTube
Autumn songs for children – YouTube
Christmas and Thanksgiving songs – YouTube

When any collection below on this page reaches the
!MAGIC NUMBER 21! or more it will be rewarded with
a dedicated homepage!

Words and music by Dany Rosevear ****
Love this song: 💖

Spanish food and drink songs can be found in the Spanish collection or at my ‘Singing Games for Children’ website here: Aliments Food

Baker’s shop

A song of bread
YouTube PDF food / harvest
Bread and fishes / Wind in the willows 💖
YouTube PDF caring for others / food
Hot cross buns
YouTube PDF
Five currant buns in a baker’s shop
YouTube PDF number / finger play / food
Honey spread on brown brown bread 💖
YouTube PDF bees / colour / Czech / food
Little Red Hen’s Song
YouTube PDF harvest / autumn
The farmer’s tractor
YouTube PDF food / harvest / hand play / autumn
The loaf of bread
YouTube PDF Autumn / harvest / food
The miller’s song
YouTube PDF Autumn / Bagpuss BBC TV
Three mice Charlotte Druitt Cole new
YouTube PDF number / poem

Desserts / puddings / sweets

Ally bally bee or Coulter‘s candy 💖
YouTube PDF Scottish lullaby 
Apple and blackberry pie ****
YouTube PDF Autumn harvest / food
Arroz con leche  Rice pudding
YouTube PDF
Beautiful bumble bee
YouTube PDF Summer / insect / handplay
Busy little bees ****
YouTube PDF minibeasts / honey / action rhyme / summer
I know a little cupboard Walter de la Mare 💖
YouTube PDF poem / Lavender Lane
Jelly on a plate
YouTube PDF Action game
Little bees ♪♫
YouTube PDF Summer hand play / creatures / food
The gingerbread man
YouTube PDF Xmas baby bounce

Drink

Red apple juice
YouTube PDF folk song / USA
Bate, bate chocolate new
YouTube PDF Mexico / counting / hand play
Cold water
YouTube PDF songs for a better world / drink
I’m a little teapot
YouTube PDF counting / hand play

Eggs

The best eggs ****
YouTube PDF Spring / Easter / comic

Foods of many kinds

Bangun pagi / Wake up early new
YouTube PDF Malayan hand play / transition / hygiene
Big red tractor
YouTube PDF harvest / colour / action / food
Diwali is here
YouTube PDF celebration / autumn
Five hungry ants
YouTube PDF ‘one less’ / insects/ picnics / hand play
Joyful Eid new
YouTube PDF celebration / Spring
Harvest new
YouTube PDF poem / school assembly
Harvest time
YouTube PDF poem / Autumn
Hot potato pass it on
YouTube PDF rhythm, steady beat / circle game / food
Paintbox or Cauliflower fluffy 💖
YouTube PDF school assembly / Autumn harvest / colour
Picnic tea David Harmer
YouTube PDF Summer / poem / minibeasts
Rice and tuna
YouTube PDF hand play / food / call and response
The country farmer’s vainglory / Harvest home
YouTube PDF food / harvest
What have you brought for harvest time
YouTube PDF Autumn / food
Wake up little pilgrims
YouTube PDF food / Thanksgiving

Food for for all

Autumn treasure ****
YouTube PDF squirrel / Autumn / hand play
Bread and milk for breakfast
YouTube PDF bird / winter / poem
“Croak!” said the toad
YouTube PDF Spring / nursery rhyme / bugs
Fly little bird
YouTube PDF a simple circle game / seasonal
For the golden corn
YouTube PDF Thanksgiving / food
Good evening, hungry hedgehog **** 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / creatures great and small
Snails lunch ****💖
YouTube PDF hand play or action game

Fruit and nuts

Bananas, bananas / Ampar, ampar pisang
YouTube PDF nursery rhyme
Eat an apple, save the core
YouTube PDF number / food / finger play
Have you ever seen an apple?
YouTube PDF Autumn / colour
Here is an apple tree
YouTube PDF food / harvest
I’m a nut
YouTube PDF action rhyme / community
Round and round the apple tree
YouTube PDF Autumn circle game
Rosy apple, lemon and a pear
YouTube PDF Autumn circle game
Saint Paul’s steeple
YouTube PDF nursery rhyme / London / apples
The farmer gathers his hay today
YouTube PDF Autumn / harvest / mime
Way up high in the apple tree
YouTube PDF Autumn / hand play

Miscellaneous

Ten fat sausages
YouTube PDF Subtraction
Sing a song of washing up
YouTube PDF poem / cleaning / helping out

Pancakes

Five crispy pancakes
YouTube PDF
I’m a little pancake **** a hand play
YouTube PDF
Mix a pancake 💖
YouTube PDF
One little pancake
YouTube PDF a number / finger play / Spring
Pancake Day
YouTube PDF
Pop a little pancake
YouTube PDF
Shrove Tuesday
YouTube PDF
Someone’s making pancakes
YouTube PDF

Picnic please

Out in the fresh air!
Gathered from my food and drink, summer, poetry and minibeast collections. A little rushed to get it in before July 10th Teddy Bear Picnic Day – will tidy it up and add others later ready for next year!

A picnic on the grass
YouTube PDF
Picnic tea David Harmer
YouTube PDF Summer / poem / minibeasts
Spread out a picnic ****
YouTube PDF Summer / minibeasts / food
The bees’ party
YouTube PDF Summer / minibeasts /food
The teddy bears’ picnic 🧡
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane

Vegetables

Chop, chop, choppity chop ♪♫
YouTube PDF food / Halloween / baby play
I’m a little pumpkin new
YouTube PDF food / Autumn / hand play
Little bean, baked bean
YouTube PDF Ukrainian hand / foot baby play
My Nipa hut
YouTube PDF Philippines / harvest / vegetables
Old MacDonald had a veggie farm ****
YouTube PDF Autumn / community / very young / action / harvest
One potato, two potato 💖
YouTube PDF number / food / garden
Planting beans
YouTube PDF circle game / plants / parts of body
Vegetables are good for me
YouTube PDF food / nursery